STOP FUNDING FOR MANDATORY MENTAL SCREENING - DO NOT LET THIS
PROGRAM BE ENFORCED ANYWHERE .... IT IS SET FOR NATIONAL ENFORCEMENT NEXT YEAR ....
STOP THE FUNDING NOW !!!! ~
pamela gaston www.avoiceforchildren.com
From: The Liberty Committee
Subject: Screening kids, pt. 3 Date:
Mon, 15 Nov 2004 19:52:00 -0800
ACTION ALERT
November 15,
2004
Congressman Ron Paul's letter expressing opposition to mandatory
mental-health screening of children was sent to Chairman Ralph Regula last
Friday. Twenty-two other House members signed Dr. Paul's letter. Those
additional signatures were added in large part due to your efforts. Thank
you!
We must now focus our efforts on House Majority Leader Tom DeLay.
Mr. DeLay can be extremely helpful to our cause.
The House will likely
pass an omnibus spending bill by this Saturday. It must include language
prohibiting money from being spent on mandatory mental-health screening of kids;
otherwise, the screening programs already operating in Texas and Illinois will
be implemented nationwide.
Should the government subject your children to
mandatory mental-health screening without your consent? We say "NO!"
The
pharmaceutical industry says "yes" because it wants millions of new customers
for drugs such as Ritalin. The psychiatry/psychology/counseling establishment
says "yes" because they want millions of new patients. These groups are
represented by the most powerful and highest paid lobbyists in Washington and
they are working this week to satisfy their clients -- at the expense of your
rights as parents and the well-being of your children.
The Association of
American Physicians and Surgeons warned the public five days ago that universal
psychiatric screening and drugging of children is "a dangerous scheme that will
heap even more coercive pressure on parents to medicate children with
potentially dangerous side effects."
Congressman Ron Paul, a physician
for over 30 years, abhors the "notion of federal bureaucrats ordering
potentially millions of youngsters to take psychotropic drugs like
Ritalin."
We must stop this new federal program before it gets millions
of dollars to spend. As Dr. Paul cautions, "Anyone who understands bureaucracies
knows they assume more and more power incrementally. A few scattered state
programs over time will be replaced by a federal program implemented in a few
select cities. Once the limited federal program is accepted, it will be expanded
nationwide."
We have until this Saturday at the latest. Urge House
Majority Leader Tom DeLay to help. Ask him to make sure the omnibus spending
bill or final committee report on Labor/HHS appropriations includes the
following language: "None of the funds made available for State incentive grants
for transformation should be used for any programs of mandatory or universal
mental-health screening that performs mental-health screening on anyone under 18
years of age without the express, written permission of the parents or legal
guardians of each individual involved."
Mr. DeLay has a copy of the
letter Dr. Paul and 22 of his colleagues sent to Chairman Regula, so he knows
about it.
All of a
sudden, it seems, millions of American children are said to be afflicted with
mental illnesses. And they’re being put on strong medications—over periods of
years—as treatment. Isn’t it time we stopped and looked at what the mental
health establishment is getting us to do to our
children?
"Never doubt that a small group of committed people can change the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has."
~Margaret Mead, anthropologist.
We each have been given the right to utilize the logic that God has given us.
We are not doctors and do not diagnose or recommend treatments for disease. However, we are people that have discovered certain truths that need to be shared with others. Our purpose is to share the truths we have found and allow each man and each woman a choice, so they may make better informed decisions about their future.
